MichiganAtlas Tutorial

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For more information, please visit the MichiganAtlas.

The MichiganAtlas contains links to many sections of the human brain, with matching cell stained and MRI sections.  One can obtain both labeled and unlabeled images of the human brain from this source.

This human atlas is a part of the Brain Biodiversity Bank, which is a repository of atlas images of and information about brain specimens contained in the collections associated with the National Museum of Health and Medicine at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC. These collections include, besides the Michigan State University Collection, the Welker Collection from the University of Wisconsin, the Yakovlev-Haleem Collection from Harvard University, the Meyer Collection from the Johns Hopkins University, and the Huber-Crosby and Crosby-Lauer Collections from the University of Michigan.

To get to the atlas images from NIF, we can search for our favorite brain region:

For this search we have selected the Cingulate gyrus and, results show up in several database tabs, including "Brain Regions" and "Images" (see below).  Note, that both tabs for images and brain contain the same link to MichiganAtlas.

The image column is the URL_ID and clicking on the second image, will take the user to a section of the human brain atlas, which has a label called "cingulate gyrus" in the horizontal plane.

Note, the default section is the horizontal, cell stained section at the appropriate level to show the structure.  We can navigate to other sections within this atlas by hitting the Superior and Inferior arrows, and we can change views by clicking on the "3D Model", MRI, or "Fiber Stain" links.  The MRI link results are shown here:

This is a different level of the brain in order to show the label for cingulate gyrus in the MRI as was shown in the cell stained section.

Below, we see the result of clicking on the "Fiber Stain" link.

We can also navigate to the other orientations by clicking the Human Brain Menu at the top of the image page and clicking the Search Through the Sections link to the right on the Human Brain Atlas main page.

Additionally, atlas images of other brains and help materials are available through this link, see below:

For more information, please visit the MichiganAtlas.